AquaTop Display is a projection system that uses white water as a screen surface. This system allows the user ’s limbs to freely move through, under and over the projection surface. Using the unique characteristics of fluid, AquaTop proposes new interaction methods specific to the projection medium: water. The system allows interactions such as protruding…
The Shirai lab of the Kanagawa institute was presenting, at the Digital content expo of Tokyo, this new kind of 3D screens that allows to show simultaneously two version of a same image. At the demo, two kinds of text were displayed in the same image, one in japanese the other in english, this technology…
Those two little things are earbuds and music player, but the magic is that you control it using your jaws. Sounds like a joke but you have to bite to control the volume or pass to next tracks: Split detects movements using a three-axis accelerometer. GreenWInAudio the society which develops those earbuds is looking for…
Yahoo launched an experimentation to help visually impaired kids to discover the world by haptic stimulations: now the results of a search can not only be audios, texts, images or video, these are also physical objects. A 3D printing machine, using a vocal recognition motor, helps kids to search an object and then prints the…
Scentee is a new kind of communication based on smells. It allows you to configure an aroma for all kind of notifications that you can receive on your favorite smartphone. For example you can configure a coffee aroma for your alarm clock, or a vanilla perfum when you receive a mail. 12 aromas are available…
Toshiba showed an SD card offering a Wireless LAN Access Point, called “FlashAir”. By offering this functionality, this SD card provides the advantage of allowing access to the data stored on it, without the need to remove the card or plug a cable to the device. This basic functionality does not require any special driver…
Well everything is in the title, no? OLED for « Organic Light-Emitting Diode ». The OLED technology is full of promises: Lower cost in the future (when mass production will start), Light weight, flexible screen, wider viewing angles, improved brightness, better response time (for a good fluidity in the mouvements)… 4K or Ultra HD, provides an image…
Google has introduced several « Google play » vending machines in Tokyo. These machines allow you to choose several games, a mix of free-to-play apps and paid-for titles It’s a giant tactile screen that allows you to browse between the apps. Sometimes some questions are asked: « what kind of graphic design, do you prefer », « which screen do…
Like Pioneer, a lot of companies showed their latest HUD system at the ceatec 2013. Initially designed for the military pilots, those features allow the driver to watch the road and get informations directly in front of their field of view. The projected image is collimated which makes the light rays parallel. Because the light…
Japan has more and more elderly people and a growing number of single-member households, the number of pets have become increasingly important. This is an important market, people buy strollers, cloths and they spend a lot for the health of their pet. With Wandant, Fujitsu offers the same sensing technologies developed for use in mobile…
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